Yesterday's Textiles and Tea introduced Dawn Ahlert, a tapestry maker also interested in twining, and taking ideas from traditional Maori twining, an ancient art of the original people of New Zealand. She's into very saturated colors, as you'll see
In other news, the lentils have begun to sprout, thanks to the idea from Apricots on the Nile
So they'll be an addition to the shakshuka I'm planning to make today
And, less happily, I got an email from my investment company to say that they won't honor a large check I wrote last week to pay my credit card. No explanation, to find out more, call this number.. There's plenty of funds to cover it, and I've used their checks once in a while to cover large bills.
I need to find out why, and I suspect that their changeovers last year making everyone move their accounts over, which I did pretty simply, might have voided the current checks. They didn't mention this at the time.
Anyway meanwhile I have to fix the issue. The good news is that I do have enough in my regular bank account to send a replacement payment, which I've done. Also there's time to get it credited without incurring a late payment charge. But I expect to be charged for the rd check all the same.
I feel aggrieved about this, innocent party, poor me. And I won't pursue using investment checks from now on. I wonder if they still process them at all, since I now see the website section explaining them is dated 2021, before the switch. It also gave a non-working email address. I've dmd them on Twitter, not holding my breath about that.
Still pursuing the fridge. I remember it took a couple of days last time around, to get started. This too shall arrive.
Anyway the puzzle answer is the noise I emitted when I got the email
SQUAWK!
And then there's the balancing pleasure of stitching and of picking a few flowers
Happy day everyone, I hope metaphorical flowers balance your squawk experiences.
